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Wilkes-Barre Township police charge four men with passing counterfeit cash
WILKES-BARRE TWP. Township police arrested four men on allegations they used counterfeit cash during a transaction at the Walmart Supercenter on Saturday.
Plains Township woman charged with endangering infants, theft
KINGSTON Police charged a Plains Township woman with retail theft and endangering two infants she left unsupervised near a heavily traveled road on Tuesday.
Suspect in 2011 Hazleton homicide jailed
HAZLETON A man accused in a deadly shooting during a sexual assault in Hazleton nearly 11 years ago was arraigned on criminal homicide charges Thursday night.
Wilkes-Barre man charged with stealing $5,000 worth of cigarettes
WILKES-BARRE City police charged Harry Eugene Gordon, 50, with burglarizing the Citgo service station on South Pennsylvania Avenue and stealing a large amount of cigarettes early Thursday morning.
Police: Cameras record alleged thefts at athletic complex
WILKES-BARRE TWP. A Wilkes-Barre man allegedly went on a spending spree at various stores in the area after stealing bank and credit cards from the King s College Robert L. Betzler Athletic Complex
Stallings sentenced up to 42 years for raping child
WILKES-BARRE Barrkim Tyreaf Stallings had a lot to say when he testified in his own defense during his Luzerne County jury trial on child rape charges earlier this year.
Evidence in Shaw’s homicide case to be reviewed by appellate court
WILKES-BARRE The admissibility of critical evidence that was discovered in the apartment of homicide suspect Anthony Shaw will be reviewed by a state appellate court.
Hazleton man sentenced for sexually assaulting two girls
WILKES-BARRE A Hazleton man who admitted to child sex offenses involving two girls was sentenced to state prison Tuesday.
Wilkes-Barre man sentenced for online child solicitation
WILKES-BARRE A man charged by Kingston Township police with soliciting sex from who he believed was a 14-year-old girl was sentenced to up to 23 months in jail.
Pittston man to face rape charges in Luzerne County Court
WILKES-BARRE A Pittston man accused by Edwardsville police of raping a teenage girl inside a Main Street residence will face felony sexual assault offenses in Luzerne County Court.
One shoe driver charged with drunken driving after pursuit
WILKES-BARRE A man from New York City was arraigned Wednesday on charges of drunken driving following a pursuit.
Nearly 100 citations issued at loud party in Hazle Township
HAZLE TWP. State police at Hazleton issued 99 citations, towed 24 vehicles and charged one person with drunken driving when they busted a loud party in the area of 1187 North Park Dr. early Sunday m
Wilkes-Barre man charged with providing false information on firearm application
WILKES-BARRE A Wilkes-Barre man on probation for five years for an accidental shooting death that claimed the life of his cousin was recently charged with providing false information on a firearm pu
Wilkes-Barre man pleads guilty to attempting to kill ex-girlfriend
WILKES-BARRE A Wilkes-Barre man admitted he intended to kill his ex-girlfriend by stabbing her at least three times inside a Wilkes-Barre Township hotel.
Mail stolen from postal boxes in White Haven
WHITE HAVEN Borough police reported Tuesday the contents of two postal mailboxes - one at White Haven Market and the other in front of the White Haven Post Office - were stolen.
Mother charged with neglecting to care for dependent daughter
WILKES-BARRE City police detectives Tuesday charged the mother with neglecting to provide care and services to her non-verbal daughter who suffers from spastic quadriplegia cerebral palsy.
Kingston man, 19, charged with vehicular homicide
EDWARDSVILLE A Kingston man was arraigned over the weekend on vehicular homicide and drug driving charges following an investigation into a fatal crash last year.
‘I feel like I got convicted defending my life’
WILKES-BARRE Hours after Attorney Leonard M. Gryskewicz Jr. wearing protective gloves picked up the three-foot long metal pipe and slightly pounded it onto the prosecution s table during his closing
Jury convicts Turner of voluntary manslaughter in fatal Wilkes-Barre shooting
WILKES-BARRE Hours after Attorney Leonard M. Gryskewicz Jr., wearing protective gloves, picked up the three-foot long metal pipe and slightly pounded it onto the prosecution s table during his closi